Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for a deepwater geotechnical investigation in the Golfinho field off the coast of Mozambique. Benthic’s PROD (Portable Remotely Operated Drill), operating from the MPSV Jaya Vigilant,
Pelamis has been unable to secure the additional funding required for further development of the Company’s wave energy technology. As a result of this the board has reluctantly moved to appoint an administrator to assess the options for securing the future for the business and employees of Pelamis.
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) announced that the MSC JUDITH, the largest container vessel to ever call the Port of Philadelphia, experienced a successful visit to PRPA’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal on Sunday, November 17. The Packer Avenue Marine Terminal is operated by Holt Logi
Singapore-based Hoidi International’s production division in China, will build legs for a COSL jack-up rig. Hoidi’s Tianjin Hoidi Group Co. Ltd. will construct the legs for the Gusto MSC CJ50-X120-E designed rig. The rig, to be named HYSY944, will be built by China Merchat Heavy Industry for China O
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed a contract with Shell for a Pusnes permanent mooring system. Contract value is around EUR 20 million. “We are very happy to finalise this large contract,” says Jan Martin Grindheim, Vice President, Offshore Mooring Systems at MacGregor. “It is strategically im
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 17 – November 23). French oil services provider Technip has announced that, on Monday, November 10, 2014, it approached CGG to create a first tier oil and gas services provider. The pro
BAM Scores Major Marine Gig in Abu Dhabi BAM International, the operating company of Royal BAM Group active outside of Europe, has been awarded a contract to construct the marine infrastructure for the phase 3 of the Al-Dabbiya oil field development by client Abu Dhabi Company for […]
Delta Marine Consultants has signed a license agreement for the use of 12,500 m3 of Xblocs for the construction of the new marina in Cadzand in the Netherlands. The marina of Cadzand is part of the upgrading of the coastal defenses at Cadzand (‘Zwakke schakels’). The project comprises of 2 breakwate
Offshore workers will for the first time be able to access their training records at the touch of a button wherever they are in the world thanks to a new mobile application launched by OPITO. Oil and gas skills organisation OPITO has developed the free TRAIN-R mobile app so workers in any internatio
GTT of France received an order for containment systems for Höegh LNG’s fifth FSRU being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries.
The newest edition to Dolphin’s fleet, high-capacity purpose-built vessel M/V Polar Empress, owned by GC Rieber Shipping, had its helideck installed this week. The seismic company Dolphin Geophysical has contracted the vessel for a fixed period of five years, and the high end vessel will enter this
Deltares will be testing the design for the planned tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, South Wales. Incorporating sixteen turbines that can deliver 320 MW, the tidal lagoon will be the world’s largest. It will be built to scale in the facilities hall in Delft so that the hydrodynamic efficiency of the des
Another IMS DM-60 Depth Master leaves the factory for an overseas buyer. The DM-60 can dredge down to 60 ft. (18.3m) and is only two truck transportable. Other dredges with this depth capacity take 4-6 trucks to transport. The Depth Master™ is IMS’s solution to making deep maintenance dredging, sedi
On the premises of Liebherr in Rostock a single lift of the new RL-K 7500 subsea crane has taken place in the course of its loading for shipment to Asia. The lift was executed by four Liebherr cranes. In the beginning of September, two LHM 600 mobile harbour cranes and two LG 1750 lattice boom [&hel
